The French academic blogging portal Hypothèses.org from 2012 has become European, with new language sections in German,
Spanish and Portuguese. The challenge is now to open an Italian section
of the Portal, Hypothèses.it and why not a federal European one like
“hypothèses.eu” here at the European University Institute in Florence? What we would need is a server and
somebody to maintain it and, of course scholars wishing to participate
in such an active and variegate online scholarly community in the
Social Sciences and Humanities.

Mounier will teach scholars
how to create a scientific blog and enter the important discussion that is
taking place in the USA ,-and not only,- about how to evaluate the scientific
contents offered in academic blogs, a relatively new form of narrative and
writing that many specialized scholars are choosing today to communicate with
their public. They are looking at platforms like Hypothèses.org or, instead, they decide to
open their own personal blog without the benefit of such an important scholarly
context, a wider portal in the social sciences and humanities.

How to evaluate the
scientific contents of the blog is a challenge in the academic environment
today will be a key issue discussed in Pisa and Florence. But before that,
everybody should be familiar with the Content Management System
WordPress which is used by Pierre Mounier to show you how to proceed
with the Hypothèses.org CMS. The organizers are
hoping that many people will attend either the session in Pisa or the one in
Florence and open their own blogs after this introduction by Pierre Mounier.

During both workshops in
Pisa and Florence, attendees will learn how to manage a blog on the Hypotheses.org
platform and publish content using the CMS (Content Management System) WordPress
used also for blogging activities at the European University Institute.
Participants will be trained in the publishing workflow within the
Hypothese.org environment.

Opening a blog, first
settings.

Blog’s editorial
objects.

Publishing simple
content.

Advanced settings.

Publishing complex
content (insertion of objects)

For more information please
contact

to attend the session in
Pisa, Enrica Salvatori (Email e.salvatori at mediev.unipi.it)